A/RES/71/192
The right to development
Recognizing the importance of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, 5 reaffirming that the Declaration on the Right to
Development informed the 2030 Agenda, along with other relevant international
instruments, and underlining the fact that the Sustainable Development Goals can be
realized only through a credible, effective and universal commitment to the means
of implementation by all stakeholders,
Recognizing also the significance of all the events held to commemorate the
thirtieth anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development, which
contributed towards according the right to development the great attention that it
deserves and presented the international community with an opportunity to
demonstrate and reiterate its political commitment to the implementation and
realization of the right to development,
Deeply concerned that the majority of indigenous peoples in the world live in
conditions of poverty, and recognizing the critical need to address the negative
impact of poverty and inequity on indigenous peoples by ensuring their full and
effective inclusion in development and poverty eradication programmes,
Recalling the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as
the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples and its outcome document, 6
Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interrelatedness, interdependence and
mutually reinforcing nature of all civil, cultural, economic, politic al and social
rights, including the right to development,
Taking note of the commitment declared by a number of specialized agencies,
funds and programmes of the United Nations system and other international
organizations to make the right to development a reality for all, and in this regard
urging all relevant bodies of the United Nations system and other international
organizations to mainstream the right to development into their objectives, policies,
programmes and operational activities, as well as into development and
development-related processes, including the follow-up to the Fourth United
Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries,
Recalling the outcomes adopted at the Tenth Ministerial Conference of the
World Trade Organization, held in Nairobi from 15 to 19 December 2015,
Expressing deep concern over the lack of substantial progress on the Doha
Development Agenda, 7 and calling upon all members of the World Trade Organization
to support the completion of the Doha Round, placing at its centre the development
dimension,
Recalling the outcome of the fourteenth session of the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, held in Nairobi from 17 to 22 July 2016, on
the theme “From decision to action: moving towards an inclusive and equitable
global economic environment for trade and development”, 8
Recalling also all its previous resolutions, Human Rights Council resolutions
and those of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to development, in
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Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/2.
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See A/C.2/56/7, annex.
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See TD/519 and Add.1 and 2.
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